Yes, when I see Jorge fly out with the bases loaded it saddens and frustrates me too. No, it is not the end of the freaking world. Yes, Jorge will be up in that situation again sometime and he’ll probably perform well. He’s a good hitter. Good hitters still fail more often than they succeed.

dkidd

jorge hit a ball 390 feet. that doesn’t mean he “plays bad”

Sweet Dick Willie

Because that we understand that even a great team, one that wins 100 games in a season, will lose 62, and that in some of those 62 losses, they will look look like a shitty team, which they really aren’t, but you can’t seem to see the big picture. You judge a team on an at-bat by at-bat basis, which is crazy.

Brazilian Yankee

Martinez is about to let one go to the backstop. 2 lucky blocks in a row now.

Chip

That’d be convenient

http://8thinning.blogspot.com VO

45,000? Thats it?

Axl

Whatever happened to the Indians’ terrible bullpen? It always bothered me when managers and players gave credits to the other teams pitcher who you knew wasn’t great…you knew it was just the players couldn’t hit. What do you think the odds are that Cliff Lee goes back out his next outing and gets beat up again?

Chip

They used up most of their pen last night so we’re seeing the 5th and 6th guys they have back there hiding in the corners

Sweet Dick Willie

Whatever happened to the Indians’ terrible bullpen?

They’ve given up 2 runs in 2 innings. If the Yanks bullpen had done that today, you’d have been bitching and moaning – oh, wait, you are bitching and moaning, just not about the Yanks pen.

BigBlueAL

WOW 2nd game in the Stadium and “only” 45,000????

Axl

On a beautiful Friday afternoon too…

And they could also technically have the bragging rights to say they were at the “First Yankee Win at the new Stadium”…

Very odd…

http://eastrutherfordrant.com donttradecano

i doubt alot of people are gonna take a day off from work on a friday in april to go to a game these days.

And he works it to 3-2, I’m shocked. I almost hope he doesn’t walk with Ransom behind him

Yankee1010

There’s a better chance of Jesus Christ hitting in that spot than Ransom.

http://8thinning.blogspot.com VO

Another freaking block

BigBlueAL

Shit since when did Victor Martinez become Johnny Bench blocking pitches????

Axl

Since he realized he was playing the Yankees…everybody plays their hearts out against them like it’s Game 7 of the World Series…you see these guys play against other teams and they just don’t care as much…

I mean I love the positive posts after each time the Yankees do something ridiculous…but I mean can we also open our eyes here people? There’s something big going on here…I don’t even think it’s statistically possible to leave this many men on base…not only in one game…but TWO games. “The world is going to end” is funny and we all get it…but look at the bigger picture here. There’s nothing really to be happy about right now.

Man I know I can be a bit of a prick at times, and I actually enjoy reading some of the negative stuff cause it is funny at times, but you really do over do it.

Axl

Yeah, look at the avg with RISP last season and then look at what it was in 2007. We scored nearly 200 less runs. I would say that last year INTO this year is a BIG PICTURE…no??

Even in the games we’ve won we haven’t been hitting that well (with the exception of Jeter in the end of the game) with RISP…we’ve still been leaving a shitload of men on base so far in every game…

Sweet Dick Willie

I don’t even think it’s statistically possible to leave this many men on base

Go back and get a refund on your statistics class. What’s that, you never took statistics? Well that certainly explains a lot.

There’s nothing really to be happy about right now.

Nope. Beautiful spring Friday afternoon, and the Yanks are tied in the 9th. Nope. Nothing to be happy about.

JT

Also, you just sound stupid, please stop. It is clearly statistically possible because it’s happening and none of us are enjoying it we are all just capable of taking a deep breath. Also, facetiously questioning in every post whether this “is even possible!!” and chiming in with your messages of gloom after every “display” gets freaking tiresome. Save us all the time it takes to scroll past your comments and stop posting.

bebop

1-20 with RISP since yesterday

Johnny

i analyzed some stats… this means the yanks will score 5 more runs in ’09.

http://www.riveraveblues.com Mike Axisa

Brian Bruney, pimp.

dkidd

bruney = 3 pitch strikeout domination

Chip

That’s 6 in a row right?

Chip

And Ryan Garko ruins the fun by swinging at the first pitch. How DARE he put the ball in play

http://www.riveraveblues.com Mike Axisa

ZOMG Bruney didn’t K Garko? JOBBER to teh 8th!1!11!!

Yankee1010

This guy Bruney should not be pitching the 8th inning. Joba should. Right?

– a good start by Joba is evidence Joba should be in the pen.
– a bad start by Joba is evidence Joba should be in the pen.
– a bad showing by the bullpen is evidence Joba should be in the pen.
– a good showing by the bullpen is evidence Joba should be in the pen.

http://eemack.blogspot.com Eric

Garko made contact. That hasn’t happened in a while.

Chip

Yeah, no Bruney has an excuse to throw his slider again

Steve B-BALL

does anyone think that Girardi will pinch hit for his boy in the bottom of the 8th?
No negativity …just the truth

Chip

He almost has to. If there’s a righty in, you have to think Miranda will get a shot

BigBlueAL

I hope so, thing is it would have to be Miranda who hopefully gets on and Pena pinch-runs for him. Actually pray for a solo HR.

Oh, god the NYC talkradiosphere would have a fucking aneurysm if Girardi let Bruney pitch the 9th.

JeffG

He is no bridge to Mo…

Stairway to heaven!

BigBlueAL

Oh No!! If Yanks dont take the lead, that means Mo pitches the 9th in a tie-game which means for sure he will give up a run and lose the game since he cant pitch when the game is tied only when its a Save situation.

JeffG

Corny… ouch.

JeffG

shit I meant to comment on mine.

JohnnyC

Yeah, well Chuck just turned 69. Bruney’s got a few years on Walker, Texas Ranger.

southernyankeefan

why matsui and not miranda?

Chip

Matsui gets paid more and Matsui is good. Miranda is a guy who watches Yankee games on TV

Sweet Dick Willie

Matsui: 3,322 MLB PAs
Miranda: 14 MLB PAs

BigBlueAL

Hey Matsui can pinch-hit.

BigBlueAL

Or not.

Chip

To be fair, that rediculously outside fastball was a strike just two pitches ago

Hey, Axl, you want something you can legitimately and rationally be negative about?

Hideki Matsui. You are allowed to be negative and pessimistic about Hideki Matsui. He has actually shown real and tangible evidence that he may be a problem. It’s still way to early to be fatalistic, but at least there’s some real evidence there for you.

Jeter’s homerun only counts for .279 of a run, because it wasnt with RISP.

Also, in regard to the crowd noise, I went to two playoff games in the old stadium by day that were silent. Day games are quieter by nature- smaller crowds, more kids. It is just a different feel. Go listen to the replay of the Tex HR: the crowd was as loud as ever. People are comparing everything in the new stadium to the old one, and have romanticized everything in the old to make the new look bad. Lombardi has hundreds of words about how he is convinced that the Yankees are lying to him and his seat is narrower than it was.

kunaldo

lombardi has to be the most pessimistic person on the face of the planet…i stopped reading him when i realized i was just getting more depressed

Yankee1010

Lombardi will find fault with every single thing that ever existed. Or that will exist.

http://www.freewebs.com/ps3tf2/ Double-J

Just remember – these are the only HR’s that count, folks.

dkidd

this ump is horrible

http://8thinning.blogspot.com VO

Come on MO!

Chip

Mo in for the save, game over

Make it interesting, bring in Veras :D

BigBlueAL

First it was the Gecko, then the Cavemen, and now some weird pile of money with eyes on top of it. What will be the next Geico genius advertising ploy????

Use to run high school track meet at the track where the New Stadium is now. And coming around the turn running away from the old stadium the wind could almost push you for down track. Balls are going to fly out there in the summer.

Our Panamanian, who art in the bullpen,
Hallowed be thy Name.
Thy kingdom come.
Thy will be done,
On the road as it is at home.
Give us this day our daily broken bat.
And forgive us our errors,
As we forgive those who error against us.
And lead us not into extra innings,
But deliver us from blown saves.
For thine is the kingdom,
and the power, and the glory,
for ever and ever.
Amen.

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